Grand Junction, CO, USA
Multiple colorful, flashing lights starting around 3 a.m. as if waiting for three solid white balls to form straight line.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-30
- Where
- Grand Junction, CO, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 39.064, -108.551 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-grand-junction-co-2017-9157dc
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 104 documented reports from Grand Junction, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Colorado logged 162 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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